Cops: Woman followed drunken driver from Dedham to Hingham

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Apr 21, 2014 at 2:30 PMApr 21, 2014 at 3:33 PM

Police said they got a 911 call around 12:40 a.m. Sunday from a woman who said she was on Route 3A in Hingham following a 2008 Infiniti G7 that had struck the side of her car and kept driving without stopping

Patriot Ledger Staff

HINGHAM - Officers arrested a Hull man for drunken driving early Sunday morning after a woman called 911 and said she’d followed him to Hingham from Dedham after he sideswiped her car, police said.

George L. Beal, 51, of 1045 Nantasket Ave., second floor, was charged with second-offense drunken driving and driving to endanger. Police released him Sunday on his promise to appear in court Tuesday for his arraignment.

Police said they got a 911 call around 12:40 a.m. Sunday from a woman who said she was on Route 3A in Hingham following a 2008 Infiniti G7 that had struck the side of her car and kept driving without stopping. An officer parked at the Summer Street rotary spotted the Infiniti and pulled it over near Hingham District Court on George Washington Boulevard, police said.

The officer reported that Beal was unsteady on his feet while performing a field sobriety test and appeared confused when asked about the crash with the other car. Beal told the officer he had “a couple of beers and a captain and Coke” but didn’t think he was drunk, police said.

Officers found minor damage above the passenger-side wheel well of the Infiniti and on the driver-side front fender of the other car, police said. The driver of the other car, a Taunton woman, told police the Infiniti had sideswiped her car while both were driving on Route 128 in Dedham.